“Arise, shine, Bethlehem, for the light of peace has dawned anew.” With these words, Bethlehem celebrated the traditional lighting of its Christmas tree on a packed Manger Square on Dec. 6, 2025, following a two-year hiatus.
An Evangelical pastor and roughly 20 of his family members were killed over the weekend in Syria in what church officials described as a targeted massacre
Puerto Rico has banned gender transition procedures for minors, joining more than two dozen states in prohibiting trans-identified youth from obtaining the life-altering interventions
Police in Pakistan on Saturday (July 19) arrested and charged a 60-year-old Catholic with blasphemy after he accused a Muslim shopkeeper of overcharging, sources said.
Zurich prosecutors recently indicted city politician Sanija Ameti for shooting an air pistol at a poster of a 14th-century painting of Jesus Christ and Mary. Ameti last September posted a photo of her...
Attacks from the religious right on Marina Silva, a Pentecostal and longtime environmentalist, expose the rifts within Brazil’s evangelical movement as the Amazon’s future hangs in the balance.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday said he would remain in his position to continue negotiations with the United States. The country has an Aug. 1 deadline to reach a trade agreement wit...
The news that eight babies with the DNA of three people have been born in the U K has been greeted by some as a great step in the fight against genetic diseases, but others are concerned about the
The federal government of Pakistan was ordered by one of the nation’s high courts to investigate the abuse of blasphemy laws.
As terrorism-scarred Christians in Nigeria await help from the government and the international community, within and outside of the country they prayed for God’s intervention this month.
U S Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, blasted the Israeli interior ministry for continuing to restrict visas issued to Christian organizations working in Israel in an exceptionally harshly worded
